Pre$$titute Central: The Note Pushes The "Liberal Media" Joke [View All]

http://www.presstitutes.com/presstitutes/2005/12/the_note_pushes.html


At ABC's The Note, that bastion of Bush loving, the insidious GOP-propping meme-du-jour is ... drum roll ... the "liberal" media. Oh, they don't come out and say it - in fact they deny it: "Leaving aside for today the debate about whether the Old Media is liberally biased..."

But one sentence later, we get this:

"Between now and the State of the Union speech at the end of next month (both an eternity and an eye blink), the Old Media is rooting for certain things.

Let's be clear: not every journalist in every case is rooting for these things. But the dominant sweep of the tone of the coverage now and through January (and quite possibly beyond that) is based on press desires:

1. The President should cave in and bring the troops home from Iraq.

2. The moderate Republicans in the House should get to be more powerful than a locomotive, and pretty much dictate what goes in every bill.

3. Meaning: there should be no drilling in ANWR.

4. Senators Snowe and Collins should announce their opposition to Judge Alito's nomination.

5. Filibustering Supreme Court nominees is fine; the nuclear option is not.

6. The Fitzgerald investigation should widen to include more Bush Administration officials, but not other reporters.

7. Jack Abramoff should sing like Whitney Houston did early in her career — loud, strong, and long.

8. Republican civil war should break out over immigration.

9. The Frist probe should widen.

10. Tom DeLay should be convicted and lose his leadership post forever.

11. Despite all this, the President should be super nice to us during the photo receiving line at the media White House holiday parties."

Yes, of course, the (we didn't call them liberal) media are rooting for all these terrible things. Because the press has been sooooo anti-Republican the past half-decade.

Jesus. These people must be hooked up to an RNC talking points IV.